Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main floor are Turkish baths, sponge-baths, shower-baths, vapor-baths and a magnificent plunge-bath, which is 75 feet by 30, and 15 feet deep; it is lined with encrustic tiling, and is constantly kept supplied with fresh water; a private stair-way connects the dressing-rooms with these paths. Down stairs is a bowling alley which is very well patronized...
...communication, which we cannot publish for lack of space, very justly complains of the thoughtless way in which the bath-rooms at the gymnasium are used by a large number of men in college. These rooms are for bathing, not for dressing, especially not for putting on such articles of apparel as a hat, an overcoat, and a cane. It is not only ungentlemanly, but it is unfair for any one to occupy a bath room longer than absolutely necessary; the accommodations are already inadequate to the demand, and any action tending to make this inadequacy greater is censurable...
...training the crew practices consists in running and walking three or four miles each day, generally out of doors, and then general exercise in the gymnasium, where they row from three to four hundred strokes on the hydraulic rowing machines, and then the calisthenics are finished off with a bath...
There are extensive repairs going on in the bath rooms in the gymnasium...
...following notice posted on the bulletin boards, "Sophomore Themes written, satisfaction guaranteed," caused a number of unsuspecting Sophomores to visit the bath room at Divinity, which was the room indicated...